Toward a Theory of Environmental Privacy

Wednesday Sep 4 - 12:15pm

University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law, Room 106

The University of Utah Law School presents a discussion on "Toward a Theory of Environmental Privacy" on September 4th at 12:15pm at the SJ Quinney College of Law Building, Room 106. Individuals engage in numerous activities (purchasing and driving a car, applying lawn pesticides) with environmental consequences (lifecycle product impacts, tailpipe emissions, contaminated run-off). The environmental harms occasioned by these activities are often individually but are collectively significant. Environmental law largely ignores individuals as a source of environmental harms but it will be necessary to more directly address harms arising from environmentally significant individual behaviors to make progress toward sustainability, mitigate climate change, and, more generally, tackle second generation environmental challenges. This event is free and open to the public. http://today.law.utah.edu/event-calendar/